Maxtor Shared Storage II review

We put the last piece of the networking puzzle into place

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Our Verdict

If you choose to make the leap to a networked hard drive, you could do a lot worse than this easy to use Maxtor drive.

For

Gigabit ethernet is supported

Files are easy to transfer

Against

No Wi-Fi

Only compatible with MacOS and Windows Vista/ XP

Once you've tried networked multimedia, it's difficult to go back to anything else. The downside is having to leave all of your energy-guzzling PCs on. An alternative is to use a networkable hard drive, onto which you would copy the desired media from the PCs.

The Maxtor Shared Storage II is equipped with no less than 1 terabyte - which should last you some time!

By default, DHCP automatically assigns the Shared Storage II a unique IP address - enter this into your web browser, and you'll find a page that allows access to various administrative tasks such as user accounts and disk-formatting. Windows XP/Vista and Mac users can run the supplied EasyManage utility, which detects available drives and offers automated backup/restoreand media management.